Tackling the migration crisis and improving security should be Europe’s main priorities in coming years, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaueble said on Friday in Bratislava. “We have to make sure our external borders are protected … we must do more to stabilise our neighbouring regions, including Ukraine,” he said at...

Poland’s labor market is increasingly attractive to foreign professionals, including managers and IT specialists, especially from the country’s eastern neighbors, according to the daily Rzeczpospolita. In the first nine months of this year, around 100,000 applications were submitted to obtain legal residency in Poland, which is an...

For Jens Stoltenberg, the former Norwegian prime minister and one-time government statistician who is now the 13th secretary general of NATO, even the highest-stakes military and political problems can often be reduced to simple math. Asked in an interview with POLITICO if he worried that the four new NATO battalions to be stationed in eastern...

Latvian entrepreneurs doing business in Ukraine still encounter many problems there, but efforts by Ukrainian authorities to improve the business environment are also evident, Latvian Ambassador to Ukraine Juris Poikans said on Latvian Television this morning, reports LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...

EU states issued a record number, 2.6 million first residence permits, to non-EU nationals in 2015, according to the EU’s statistical office Eurostat. The top beneficiaries were people from Ukraine and the United States. The UK issued the most permits, with a total of 633,000 or about 24.3% of the total in the EU. …read more Source:...

Joe Biden is at the top of the internal short list Hillary Clinton’s transition team is preparing for her pick to be secretary of state, a source familiar with the planning tells POLITICO. This would be the first major Cabinet candidate to go public for a campaign that’s insisted its focus remains on winning the election, and perhaps...

There may be nine candidates in Moldova’s presidential elections on Sunday, but it really boils down to two options: Russia, or the European Union. Socialist candidate Igor Dodon, a former economy minister and a front-runner in all the opinion polls, is on the record telling a Russian newspaper that his country’s association agreement...

KIEV — To Volodymyr Groysman, Ukraine’s prime minister, questions from Western capitals about Kiev’s commitment to reform are unfathomable. For him, the results speak for themselves. While battling Russian-backed insurgents in the east of the country and stabilizing the economy, which just a year ago seemed to be heading off a cliff,...